Word: glow
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...only with their boots, but with their life-preservers on. They live from day to day, and count the minutes from sunrise until they can disappear again in the darkness. But even that darkness has not been concealing them from enemy periscopes, while they follow the coastwise routes. The glow from innumerable house and street lights can silhouette the outlines of a ship forty miles out to sea, and submarines work on a twenty-four hour shift...
From worries about terrorism to deadly viruses to glow-in-the-dark creatures, Atwood’s ideas for her book, she admits, are cribbed from the current climate. For example, the narrator spent his childhood in a gated community owned by his parents’ science lab, in which the schools, homes and parks are all controlled by corporate interests...
...Glow sticks? So 90’s. Scorpion bowls? Too syrupy. Contra dancing? Let’s not even get started. FM has stumbled upon the latest and greatest Saturday night activity: a murder-mystery theatre evening, which comes complete with a matching meal and is admittedly best enjoyed with quite a few cocktails...
...season ago, Cornell swiped the Whitelaw Cup from Harvard’s grasp in the final minute—a collective punch in the jewels that, even in the glow of Saturday’s victory, wasn’t far from this team’s consciousness. “We remember,” Smith said...
...nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from smoke detectors, thorium from Coleman lanterns, deadly radium from the glow-in-the-dark paint used on the hands of vintage clocks. For sheer improvisational ingenuity, Hahn makes MacGyver look like Jessica Simpson. When public-health officials finally caught on to what Hahn was up to, the potting shed was so hot it had to be classified as a Superfund site...